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If you are in Jordan, please do not forget to visit the Dead
Sea. It is located in the Jordan Rift
Valley, bordered by Israel and Palestine to the West and
Jordan to the East . The Dead Sea is a lake that is the lowest point on Earth at 1412 feet
below sea level. The lake is surrounded
by golden-brown hills and has light turquoise waters with salt crystals
jutting out of it.
The earliest name of
the Dead Sea is recorded in the Hebrew
Scriptures, where it is referred to as the Salt Sea because of its special character of high salt content which makes it a source for rock and sea
salts.
Afterwards some other names were given to this lake. the
Primordial Sea, the East Sea, the Sea of Lot, the Sea of the Arabah, the Sea of
Sodom, the Stinking Sea, the Sea of Asphalt and the Devil’s Sea. At last the name Dead Sea came . The Jordan River
flowed south from the Sea of Galilee with full force in the wet season with reeds
and fish flowing into the highly saline water of the Salt Sea. As neither fish
nor algae could survive in water which is nearly ten times saltier than oceans (It’s
saline content is of about 34.2 % whereas
ocean contains only around 3.5%.) it was a death-trap for
them. And the Salt Sea becomes Dead Sea .
This lake is one of the saltiest bodies of water as well as the deepest hyper-saline in the world, at a
depth of 997 feet. This high salinity is
due to the shape of the lake -- rain and surface water flows into it but as there is no escape point , this water
becomes captive to be evaporated. Scorching summer temperatures and year-round hot dry
climatic conditions lead to significant losses of water to evaporation and the minerals becoming more and more concentrated
with salt prominent among them. This process has been going on for last for
65,000 years.
The hyper-salty waters
and mineral-rich mud have so many health benefits, that people go to its beaches for mud treatments and salt baths.
Residents of Mediterranean basin were frequent visitors for thousands of years.
It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), the
supplier of a wide variety of products from asphalt for Egyptian mummification
to potash for fertilisers .
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